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Rejoua dichotoma

Scientific Name
Rejoua dichotoma
Family Name
Apocynaceae
Common Names
Local Names
Divi kaduru (Sri Lanka)
Description
A small, dichotomously branched tree with a pale grey, smooth bark and branchictswith scars of fallen leaves; leaves numerous, simple, opposite, 10-17.5cm long, 3.5-4.5cm broad, lanceolate-oblong tapering to the base, suddenly and shortly-acuminate,obtuse, stiff and coriaceous, dark-green above, paler beneath., lateral veins numerous,horizontal, parallel, depressed above, prominent beneath, petioles 1.5-3.5cm long;flowers regular, bisexual, white, sweet-scented with the throat and tube yellow. 3.5-7.5cm across, few on very long pedicels, cymes in axils of the terminal pair of leaves,peduncles 5-15cm long, stout, glabrous, bracts small, ovate. fleshy, adpressed; sepals5. fie segments imbricate, glabrous arid rounded; petals 5. fused into a tube 1.8-2.5cmlong, lobes white .3cm long, 1cm broad, falcately twisted, often crisped at marginoverlapping to the left; stamens 5, inserted below the middle of the corolla-tube,distinct, anl! n sessile, acute; disc absent; ovary superior, 3mm long, 2-carpellary,glabrous, style short. elavate ad stigma bifid; fruit about 5cm long, fleshy, pendulous,horizontally divaricate or reflexed, broadly ovoid, blunt, flat on the dorsal surface,rounded osi the ventral side, smooth, orange-yellow, dehiscent along the ventralsuture seeds 1.8cm long, finely striate, surrounded by a coat of crimson pulp. Flowersduring April and May. (Sri Lanka)
Uses
Centipede bites, delirium, eye disease, fistula, ulcerations, anti scorbutic, purgative,tooth ache, snake bite, narcotic (Sri Lanka)
Locations Where Plants Is Conserved
Sri Lanka - Naula, Bibila, Kanneliya, Meegahak, Pinna
Remarks
Rejoua dichotoma (IPNI)

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